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"We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote."

"It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it."

"I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes."
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"That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income."

"Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government."

"Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place."

"What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government."
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